Author:James Thomson (1700-1748)

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James Thomson (1700–1748)

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Scottish poet and dramatist

James Thomson

Works

Poetry

• The Seasons (1726–1730)
• The Smoaker Smoak'd
• Ode to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (1727)
• Britannia (1728)
• Liberty (1734–1736)
• Agamemnon (1738)
• The Castle of Indolence (1748)

Anthologized:

• In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:

  Hymn on Solitude

  "Thus safely low, my Friend, thou canst not fall"

  "As those we love decay, we die in part"

Drama

• The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730)
• Edward and Eleonora (1739) - prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain
• Alfred: A Masque] (1740), co-authored with David Mallet, and which contains the song Rule, Britannia!
• Tancred and Sigismunda: A Tragedy (1745)

Works about Thomson

• "Life of Thomson" by Robert Shiells in Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift (1753) edited by Theophilus Cibber (disputed)
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• “Thomson, James (1700-1748)” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Parodies of Thomson

• Imitation III in A Pipe of Tobacco by Isaac Hawkins Browne

On his works

• "Seasons, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)